Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-11-19

connected with the evening star, or the moon
In its first quarter or with the sunrise, be-
cause you saw IL just as you were arriving az
harbor after tempestuous voyage. Forever
and forever, o hearer, associate the sunset
with your magnanlmous, out and out, I'M
limited remuneration of all hatreds and for
riveness of all foes. l admit il is the most
difficult OF all graces to practice, and at tho
start you may make complete failure, but
keep ON in the attempt to practice It.
Shakespeare wrote ten plays before he
reached "Hamlet,n and seventeen plays
before he rea6h he'd Merchant OF Venice" and
twenty -eight plays before he reach "Mac-
beth" And gradually you will come from
the easier graces TO the most difficult. Be
side that 1t Is not a matter Of personal deter
mination 50 much as the laying hold Of this
almighty arm of God, who will help us to do
ANYTHING wrought to do. Remember that
in all personal controversies the one
least 10 blame will have TO take the
first step at paciication, IL it is ever
effective. The contest between Eschines
and Aristippus rcsounds through history, but
Aristippus who was least 10 blame went to
lfschines and said: "Shall we not agree to
be friends before we make ourselves the
laughing stock OF the whole country And
sEschines said; Thou art a far better man
than l. for began the quarrel, but thou hast
been the first in healing the breach, and they
were always friends afterwards. So let the
one of you that is least TO blame take
the first step toward Cancellation. The one
most in the wrong will never take it. Oh,
il makes one feel splendid TO be ablo
by Gods help. to practice unlimited
forgiveness II improves ones body and
soul Il will make you measure three or four
more inches around the chest, and improve
your respiration so that you can take deep
or and longer breath. It improves the coun-
tenance by scattering the gloom, and bright
ening the forehead, and loosening the pinched
NJ, al,s frsfl nd
somewhat like God Himself. He is omnipo-
tence, and we cannot copy that. He is indie
pendent of all the universe, and we cannot
copy that. He is creative, and we cannot
copy that. He is omnipresent, and we cannot
COPY that But He forgives with broad sweep
and all wrong doing, and in that we may copy
him with mighty success. Go harness that
sublime action OF your soul to an autumnal
sunset, the hour when the gate of heaven
opens to let tho day pass into the eternities
and some OF the glories escape this way
through the brief opening We talk about
the Italian sunsets, and sunset amid the APP
penineS and sunset amid the COrdilleras.
But will toll you how you may see grander
/ sunset than any mere lover of nature ever be-
held; that is, 10y iiinging into it all your
hatredS and animusities, and let the horses Of
tire tramplo them, and the chariots of fire
roll over them, and the spearmen of fire
| stab them, and the breath oil fire consume
them, and the blows OF fire overwhelm
them. The sublimest thing God does is the
sunset The sublimest thing you can do is
forgiveness. Along the glowing banks of
his coming eventide let the divine and the
| auman he concurrent
, Again: Weshould not let the sun go down
/ On our wrath because it il of little Importance
| what the world says of you or does to you
when you have the atluent God of the sunset
/ Is your provider and defender. People
/ "a
.acle of nature and always the same
But no one ever saw two sunsets alike,
and il the world has existed q 900 years there
have been about p 10000 sunsets, each Of
Them as distinct from all tine other pictures in
The gallery Of the sky as Titian's Last Sup
per-" Rubens "Descent from the Cross"
Raphaels TRANSPORTATION" and Michael
| Angeles Last Judgment are distinct
from each other. IL that God, of such
Infinite resources that he can put ON the wall
Of the sky each night more than the Louvre,
and the Luxembourg, and the Vatican and
The Dresden and Venetian galleries all in one,
Is my Col and your God, our provider and
protector, what is the use Of our worry
ing about any human antagonism' If we are
misilHerpreted, the God of the many colored.
sunset can put the right color on our action
IL he can afford TO hang such masterpieces
| over the outside wall of heaven and have
them oblterated in an hour, he must be very.
rich in resources and can put us through in
safety. IL all the garniture of the western
heavens at eNentide is but the upholstery of
one OF the windows of our future home, what
| small business for us to be chasing enemiesi
let not this Sabbath sun go down upon your
wrath.
Mahomest said The sword is the key of
Heaven and hell. drop of blood shed is bet
Ter than fasting, and wounds in the day of
Judgment Respondent as vermilion and odos-
ferrous as musk" But, my hearers, in the
last day we will find just the opposite of
that TO 10 true, and that the sword never I'M
locks helven, aud that he who heals wounds
i greater than he who makes them, and that
IN the same ring are two keys Gods for
giveness OF us and our forgiveness ofenemie3;
AMI these two keys unlock Paradise.
Aud now wish for all of you u beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With some
Df You il has been long day of trouble and
with others Of YOU il viii be far from calm.
When the sun rose at 6 o'clock i. was the
morning OF youth, AMI fair day WIS
propheSied, but by thu Tins the monday of
mid-llfe had come and the c'o,k of your
earthly existence hal struck L. cloud racks
gathered and tempest beloved in the track
Of tempest But as the evening of old age
approaches Ipray Col the skies may brighten
and the clouds be piled up into pillars as
Of celestial temples 10 which you go, or
move as with mounted cohorts come TO take
you home. And as you sink out OF sight be-
low the horizon may there lie a radiance
Of Christian example lingering long after
you arc gone, AMI on the heavens be writ
Ten in letters Of sapphire, ami on the waters
In letters Of opal, and on the hills in letters of
emerald: Thy sun shall no more 20 down,
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself. for
Hard 70 Kill that Bear.
A passenger train on Florida railroad
stopped some fifteea miles from Cedar
Keys to prevent a collision with some
cattle, when black bear came trotting
leisnrely out Of the woods, climbed upon
the platform of the car and entered the
express room, where he found three
strings Of fish and some lacon, all of
which went quickly into his NAV.
When the tain started up the swaying
of the car shut the door The bear soon